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Article Contributor: Hema
No matter your age posture problems can cause pain and suffering but there are ways to help improve your posture and reduce the risk of future problems. Yoga is a well-known, low impact exercise method that has been used for centuries to both help and heal bad posture and the pain behind it.
In this Q&A session Hema D’Souza, a professional Yoga personal trainer and teacher in Dubai helps to explain how the regular practice of Yoga can help people with posture problems and even those who are at risk.
Question: Many people in Dubai suffer from bad posture. Sitting at work for extended periods, being over-weight and other factors make the problem worse. How does regularly practising Yoga in Dubai help improve posture?
Due to sedentary lifestyle and work a lot of people in Dubai face these posture problems. Yogasana practice in the right way make the spine supple, eradicate pain and discomfort.
Tight work schedule is the main reason for lacking exercise. For busy people yoga can be done at work in Dubai, chair yoga benefits them. During breaks at work people can plan to do chair yoga for 30 to 45 min which really helps them to change their posture as well good health.
Question: Many employers in the UAE are looking for better ways to help their employees stay fit and healthy. Do you think Yoga in the workplace could help minimize employee health issues, especially those related to posture (back and neck problems etc)?
Yes, of course. We call it corporate yoga in Dubai. Specially trained yoga teachers and coaches in the UAE guide them how they can do yoga in office itself. According to availability we can schedule class in their office itself.
No need of any big place or mat. We can do it on their chair and standing stretching exercises, breathing techniques, postures which make neck, shoulder and back stronger.
Yogasana helps to overcome from neck and shoulder stiffness.
Question: As a professional Yoga teacher in Dubai do you think Children’s Yoga can prevent posture related problems as they grow into adulthood?
Of course, yoga for children in Dubai is very beneficial. As a yoga teacher I have seen lot of kids struggle to sit on floor, and struggle to cross their leg in sitting posture.
This might be due to children not sitting on the floor for any length of time, they use comfortable chairs, smooth cushions, a sofa or bed. And this makes their body muscles very weak.
In India or other Asian countries parents make their childrens sit on the floor, play in the floor, have food sitting on the floor, use mat on the floor to sleep.
This makes body muscles stronger and build toned body too. In modern times we tend to provide more comfort and luxury to kids.
Physically children’s muscles and bones become weaker. And it continues in adulthood too.
Less awareness of fitness, lack of walking (in Dubai people never walk even small distances, they tend to only travel in cars) leads them wrong lifestyle. Parents must support kids to do yoga and implement in their kids lifestyle as a routine. Schools and colleges should keep time for yoga.
Many countries introduced yoga in schools, it has become now syllabus to kids. To lead a better life meditation and yogasana helps a lot.
Question: For someone who has never tried Yoga before do you think Yoga poses designed to help posture are too difficult?
For those who have never tried yoga before is it better that they take yoga classes from a professional yoga teacher in the UAE, especially one who has M.Sc in yoga. They have in-depth knowledge about human anatomy and physiology.
They will plan the class according to your health system and need. Warm Up exercises help to open up the body muscles and simple stretching exercises with breathing techniques makes them easy to do yoga.
Beginners yoga I recommend to them, also its better to take some personal yoga session if you looking to practice in yoga studios.
Personal training brings you confidence and motivation easily. I have clients here in Dubai and the vast majority of them never did yoga before and now they are enjoying yoga several times per week. My clients are from 5 to 87 year olds.
Question: Can you provide 5 examples of Yoga poses that are good for correcting bad posture and also explain how and why these 5 work?
(Mountain Pose) : Standing straight , stomach in, big toes touching each other and looking forward, gazing at one point. While inhaling expanding stomach, while exhaling contracting stomach. Give 10 breathe.
Benefits :
(half moon posture) : Stand in mountain pose first. Then while inhaling raise the right hand and while exhaling bend towards left side, hold the position for few sec.
While exhaling bring down the hand. Do the same on left hand too.
Benefits :
Stand on the mountain pose first. While inhaling raise the both hands from the side ways upward, join both palm and look up. While exhaling bend forward (if possible keep both palm on the floor and without bending legs touch forehead to the knee joints.) While inhaling raise both hands and join palms, look up.
While exhaling bring down hands from the sideways.
Note: if anybody had back pain perform this posture with knee bend.
Benefits :
Stand in mountain pose first. While inhaling spread the right leg to the right side and raise both the hands to the shoulder level simultaneously. exhaling turn right foot to the right side.
While inhaling raise the right hand, exhaling bend towards right food and hold the big toe with 3 finger, turn neck upside and look at the tip of left hand. Breath properly in this position.
While inhaling expand the stomach and exhaling contract. After 5 count inhaling comeup, exhaling turn right foot straight.
Do the same on left side too.
Benefits :
( cow face pose) : sit one the floor. While exhaling fold the right leg and keep it below left leg crossing backard. Inhale.
While exhaling fold the left leg and keep it on right leg crossing the leg facing backwards. Lift left hand and take it back from upperside then take right hand back from lower side.
Join the hand on back side. Eyesight between eye brows. Breath.
Benefits :
Yoga, when practised regularly in the UAE can provide great benefits when it comes to posture and problems associated with posture like sitting in the same place for long period of time.
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